On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:54:57AM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > That Gnome is intentionally sabotaging users and thinks they are too stupid > to understand a port number associated with a service is just another > example why I wish that Fedora and Redhat would put work into alternative > desktops.
Not knowing what IPs and ports are is not stupidity, it's just not knowing it. I've got electrical engineering students in a network security (!) university course which had difficulties distinguishing between IPs and ports. (It also included flow directions, but that is not too relevant, as usually the first information a user gets is just the port number, and we're always talking about a locally bound port) Users don't get to see stuff like this - usually they see hostnames without ports or ip-addresses connected with ports (like x.x.x.x:y syntax) Also making a service listen on the lo-interface only has the effect of creating confusion. Sometimes stuff like this leads to deactivation of the firewall, even though that can't help at all. ~ David
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